Valerie Kasanita Adams, a shot putter from New Zealand, a four-time World champion, three time World Indoor champion and two-time Olympic and Commonwealth champion, thanked her chiropractor In a tweet for her 51st straight win.

Munich -
Holders Bayern Munich reached the Champions League semi-finals with a 3-1 win over Manchester United in their quarter-final second leg match at Munich's Allianz Arena on Wednesday to go through 4-2 on aggregate.

London -
Chelsea reached the Champions League semi-finals with a thrilling 2-0 win over Paris Saint Germain in their quarter-final second leg match on Tuesday to go through on the away goal rule after the tie ended 3-3 on aggregate.

Indian Wells -
World number two Novak Djokovic rallied to beat Roger Federer in a three-set thriller Sunday for the Indian Wells ATP Masters title.Djokovic defeated Federer 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) to capture his third title in the California desert to go with those he wo...

Kranjska Gora -
America's giant slalom Olympic champion Ted Ligety recorded his 22nd World Cup victory on Saturday as he took the latest race in the event in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.The 29-year-old -- also a two-time world champion in giant slalom -- was winning for t...

Sochi -
American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin showed nerves of steel to add Olympic gold to her world slalom title under floodlights at Rosa Khutor on Friday.The 18-year-old, in pole position after the first run, clocked a combined total of 1min 44.54sec over two...

Sochi -
Adelina Sotnikova won Russia's first ever women's Olympic figure skating gold in controversial circumstances on Thursday as defending champion Kim Yu-Na was dumped into the silver medal position.The 17-year-old took the title ahead of South Korean supe...

Chereshnya -
Germany's Carina Vogt made history on Tuesday, winning the first ever women's ski jumping event at an Olympic Games in a nail-biting finale that left favourite Sara Takanashi off the podium.

Perth -
It took them almost three months, but England finally notched their first win of their horrific Australian tour in the fourth one-day international against Australia at the WACA Ground on Friday.

If the Republicans want to win the White House in 2016, they have to do one thing: quit acting like Democrats. One would think losing in 1992, 2008 and 2012 would teach a lesson. If it has, the party apparently hasn't learned.

Ulsan -
Millions of Iranians took to the streets on Monday, June 18th, to celebrate their country's victory against South Korea, in a crucial qualifying game for a position in the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Canada's first medal in the 2012 Olympics in London belongs to synchro divers Émilie-Joane Heymans and Jennifer Abel, winning a bronze in Sunday's women's synchronized three-metre springboard competition.

Rick Santorum and not Mitt Romney might have won the Iowa caucuses. But Iowa GOP officials say we will never know for sure because of inaccuracies from 131 precincts and missing results from eight.The final count, however, gave Santorun a 34-vote lead.

Peugeot have won the classic Le Mans 24 Hour endurance race at the Sarthe circuit in France, defeating their rivals, Audi, to make it ‘third time lucky.’ The Peugeot team scored a one-two finish after the Audis developed technical problems.

They are getting on, old enough to be grandfathers, far from attractive to look at and still prancing around the stage in that school boy get up which is one of the oldest gags in rock music, yet when it comes to winning our hearts AC/DC, still do it

The boyfriend of the Kansas woman found adhesed to a toilet after sitting for two years has won $20,000 US in the state lottery - for the second time this year. Although the the man was convicted of mistreatment in the case, he was sentenced to probation.

Members of the Los Angeles Kings take turns holding Lord Stanley's cup following their first win, as media take photos and film the historic moment. "With respect to my adopted home, L.A. is a bandwagon city," says Forsyth about his adopted city's recent hockey-love, "but I say: come one, come all."